Forming Bands

[Henk]

Not really an option as I'd have to drag my whole (reasonably portable) rig down to school and book out the studio without hope of rehearsal during the day as all the practice rooms are filled with freelance music teachers and set everything up in two rooms at once. After that I'd have to warm up to a performable standard and then I have to go home as it's about 5:00 and the schools going to be locked up. Apart from that it'd be a piece of piss...

When i started out(i was 14 or 15) we practiced in a barn at a farm, i started just with a bass player though and we just started making songs, me even doing the vocals aswell :oops:

It does take a fair amount of will-power to stand there freezing you nuts off wile playing in the winter. Still i couldnt imagine not to practice, even in sub zero temperature, riding my bike for 30 minuted with my guitar on my back and my amp on the back of the bike.

It took us a few months looking for a drummer, by then we had a couple of songs and within a years time we had our first gig in a community centre. Maybe nothing to brag about, but man did i get my fair share of adrenalin that day.

Im sorry, but if you really want to play in a band youll find a way, no question.

[Mr Ed]

I'm very happy in my current band... but I wish I could find a female-fronted band with a similar sound in the area. I've always wanted to be in a band with a female singer.

[Sailor Charon]

I've signed up with four or five sites and you know what? I can't find any women! Never mind 'in my area' or 'wanting to play hard rock/classic metal' There aren't any.  Which is a bit of a problem...

why?

Well, if you're trying to form an all-female band (which I am). Having worked as a computer programmer for years and been surrounded by men, I'm not keen on being the only woman in the band as well.

[maverickf1jockey]

Finding an all-female band in those genres is always going to be a challenge. Those styles of music are still associated too much with sweaty men and testosterone that could be collected by placing a jar on the nearest surface with an ice cube inside. Its, I imagine, very intimidating for the average girl in that environment (which doesn't really exist and never has done it's just several people who perpetuate the stereotype) and so they tend to go for 'safer' options like chart music  :wallbash: .

In short; it's not your fault as a gender - it's the media.

[Brow]

I'm currently looking for a new band at the minute.

In my current 1 the singer and drummer are on about going more electronic with less guitars, because they think it'll 'give them an edge over practically every other band that's just about guitars'  :roll:

I'm currently looking for a 'bog standard' covers band doing music I love, or maybe even a tribute act. It's proving difficult to think of a band for which I could play JUST their music though  :lol:

[jt]

:D Forming bands is a nightmare always was always will be !

I`m afraid it comes down to right place right time & a F**k load of patience. It can take years to get it together. As a long time player i gave up the whole band thing as it became more work than it was worth. I now play in a duo. We use backing tracks & play & sing along to `em. We have an agent & i`m gigging every week. When trying to get other muscians involved i have an advantage....i`m talking about payed work about me & the other band members making money  that tends to draw alot of people in. The problem as has been pointed out is trying to get a covers band together that wont play Sweet Child`o mine or Summer 69 etc so many bands are doing `em its getting boring. I`m also struggerling to think of a band i`d like to tribute.

 :D  8)

[machine_of_god]

Forming a proper band is a bitch, cuz it's easy enough to throw together a guy who can bang on the skins, another chap who can finger the bass right, and another who can tickle the keys on a synth, while you blast away on your guitar... but then there's the hard bit;

1 - You all have to want to play the same type of music (rare)
2 - You all have to be available to jam at the same time (very rare)
3 - And I dunno about you guys, but every drummer I've ever had has suffered from what appears to be A.D.D.

So far I've played like 10 gigs with my full band, and about 20 with only parts of my band. I got my bass player to play drums a few times (I taught him both instruments so he did a fine job  :oops: ) when the drummer disappeared, and somehow managed to convince my synth player to do the bass on the keyboard (she felt very slighted at that... dunno why). Often enough, I've showed up to a gig and played a solo acoustic set because I couldn't get anyone else to show. B a s t a r d s, the lot of them   :twisted:

All you can do, really, is just be VERY patient, and ALWAYS be on the lookout for players. Eventually the odds are that you'll find people who WILL be available and like playing the same jams you do.

I'm done rambling now   :D

[Ratrod]

1 - You all have to want to play the same type of music (rare)
2 - You all have to be available to jam at the same time (very rare)
3 - And I dunno about you guys, but every drummer I've ever had has suffered from what appears to be A.D.D.

+ all band members have to be able to get along.

I've seen very skilled musicians but they can't play in a band because they're total arseholes.